Ag lenders in the Federal Reserve’s Ninth District remained concerned about trade and weather challenges confronting farmers but say the earlier price rally bolstered growers’ immediate outlook, says Joe Mahon, the district’s director of regional outreach, in summarizing the second quarter 2019 Agricultural Credit Conditions Survey.
“Continued low prices, high production expenses and extreme weather is leading to more farm stress, including higher chapter 12 bankruptcies," says a March 22, 2019, report in the Minneapolis Federal Reserve Banks’s recent issue of Fedgazette.
Feedback from farmers, agricultural lenders, suppliers, and other interests in the ag sector, gathered informally by the Minneapolis Fed over the past year or so in meetings and other venues, has suggested that farm balance sheets are increasingly stressed.
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